Vocabulary
Another name for the "South"
What is the Confederacy?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200 people were killed in this mini civil war
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in response to what Act?
He was a Republican in the Election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the South?
This person wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
He attacked a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and had a plan to give slaves weapons
Who is John Brown?
This compromise saved the country from falling apart and it had 7 parts which gave concessions to both the free and slave states
What is the Compromise of 1850?
In the election of 1852, this President refused to place his hand on the Bible to take his oath of office
Who is Franklin Pierce?
What is secede?
He was a Senator of Massachusetts and he was beaten over the slavery issue.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This Act allowed these two states to use popular sovereignty to decide the slave issue
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
Name 2 of the 4 proposals for the new territory acquired from Mexico?
What is make the land free of slavery, make the land slave territory, lets states vote on the issue, or extend the Missouri Compromise Line out to the Pacific Ocean?
This person was elected in the election of 1856 and was never married
Who is James Buchanon?
Someone who runs away from the law
Who is a fugitive?
He was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court
Who is Dred Scott?
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated over the slavery issue in order to become the Senator of what state?
What is Illinois?
What is Kansas?
This President was elected in 1848, but died of diarrhea
Who is Zachary Taylor?
When states vote whether to be a free or slave state
What is popular sovereignty
He became the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
After this attack, Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to serve the Union for three months
What is Fort Sumter?
The 2 parts of the Dred Scott Decision
What is slaves are not citizens so they cannot go to court and slaves are property, so a slave can be brought where ever the owner goes?
Name 3 of the 4 candidates in the Election of 1860
Who were Lincoln, Breckenridge, Bell, and Douglas?